Nutritional supplement

Composition

One capsule contains:

• Oat (Avena sativa) seeds and plants dry extract   500 mg,
• Bran                                                              300 mg.

Recommendations for use:

• after severe diseases,
• organism distress,
• lack of vitamins.

Action of active substances

Oats

Wild oats are well known in folk medicine of Western Europe. Even Galen, the classic of antique medicine, said that oats were grown in India and they were used for feeding the animals and sometimes even for the food of human beings. But the nutritive and healing properties of oats were noticed many years later. Oats that are used for medicinal preparations and food were derived from wild species, most commonly used are oat grass and corns. Corns contain of alkaloid gramin, avenin, saponines, iron, manganese and zinc. Oats also contain of B group vitamins, D and E vitamins. These are the natural substances that fortify the organism. Insoluble food fibers that are in oat bran can stop the uprise of cancerous lesions of large intestine, normalize the activity of intestinal tract, relieve constipation, help to loose overweight. Insoluble fibers are resistant to digestion enzymes and pass the digestion system unchanged. Because of the effect food bran are often called “intestinal broom”. Bloating in the stomach it cause the feeling of satiety, which is beneficial when trying to loose overweight. Brand cause the faster food motion in intestinal tract and the faster passage of feces. Binding with bile acids the fibers regulate the plasma cholesterol concentration. Besides, brand contains of large quantity of B group vitamins and mineral substances.

Scientific researches demonstrating the efficiency

* Food brand that are in the oats help to control plasma sugar and cholesterol concentrations, to avoid cardiac diseases and cancer (data of the year 2004, American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association).
* 8 double blind multicentric researches with 116 children with diagnosed celiakia were performed. Conclusions: oats have a positive effect on clinical symptoms of gastrointestinal system. Oats help morphologic structure of small intestines to regenerate and strengthen the immune system.
* Food fibers that are in oats reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases 29 percent (December 2004 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition).

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